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Regulations pertaining to Credits, Academic Programmes and Award of Degrees:

4. Computer-based material: Quality Standards
(a) The Computer-based material shall provide an environment for practise, at the learner’s
own pace and in his own time.
(b) The Computer-based material shall provide an environment for self-assessment.

(c) It shall allow learners to develop analysis and decision-making skills, to discover
principles and concepts for themselves.

(d) The course shall be organised into units and lessons.
(e) There shall be description of unit overview along with objectives, activities, assignments
and resources that frame the unit.
(f) Availability of a program map and correlation matrix among the courses in the
programme.
(g) There shall be description of credit value of each module or unit in the course.
(h) There shall be lesson’s overview, content and activities, assignments to provide the
learning opportunities for learner to master the content.
(i) The course shall be designed to teach concepts and skills that the learner will retain
throughout the study.
(j) There shall be multiple learning paths for engaging the learner in active learning.
(k) The content shall provide opportunities for learners to engage in high-order thinking,
critical-reasoning activities and thinking in increasing by complex ways.

(l) There shall appropriate readability levels, written language assignments and
mathematical requirements.

(m) The course shall be easy to navigate.
(n) There shall be declaration of textbooks, courseware, and online resources necessary to
refer additionally to complete and master the course.
(o) The Compute-based material shall satisfy the needs of learners with disabilities.
5. Curriculum and Pedagogy: Quality Standards
(a) The curriculum objectives shall be consistent with the mission of the HEI.

(b) There shall be involvement of all the stakeholders in the process of framing the
curriculum objective.
(c) The curriculum shall be designed by adopting University Grants Commission Model
Curriculum and incorporating local or regional needs.
(d) There shall be rationale for the appropriateness of the curriculum to the stage of learning.
(e) There shall be linkages of the curriculum to previous and subsequent stages of learning.
(f) There shall be such learning experiences which allow a diversity of methods (like
learning from practice, opportunities for distributed and concentrated practice, learning
with peers, learning in formal situations inside and outside the department, personal
study, specific teacher inputs etc).
(g) The structure of curriculum shall be defined.
(h) There shall be a complete strategy on teaching and learning methods.
(i) There shall be a decision made on types of media content used.

(j) There shall be a comprehensive decision on assessment & evaluation techniques.
(k) The content shall be reliable and justify the learning outcome(s).

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